he owned saloons down in texas, too. the thing that was his forte was being a businessman, and what he did was he bought the white elephant saloon, and some of the places and that's where he was sort of ramrodded up. well, great if people will come from the mines and they been up in the mountains for weeks and she finally found goal and they want to spend it and have a good time your he owned a couple of mines, and that's -- he owned mines and had people working for him. i'm not sure if he can go and i can suffer and so, but they say he jumped mines and he was taken to court and lost one or two cases. he was sort of the business end of it. he was doing pretty good. he have a lot of people working for him. his wife, josie, i'm sure that she sang in a local saloon. they had a house. i think he did pretty well for himself. when he left ear he must have had a pretty good amount of money with him, but he went back down to texas with his girlfriend. welcome i worked in the mines for years and have always heard the story about